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List Price: $7.99 | | Label: Sony
Salesrank: 5075
Released: October 25, 1990 |
| Our Price: $5.95 |
| Used Price: $2.78 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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Guilty Track Listing:
1. Guilty - Barry Gibb, Barbra Streisand
2. Woman in Love
3. Run Wild
4. Promises
5. Love Inside
6. What Kind of Fool - Barry Gibb, Barbra Streisand
7. Life Story
8. Never Give Up
9. Make It Like a Memory
Editorial Review:
Guilty may well be Barbra Streisand's best pop album. At the peak of her late-'70s popularity, she hooked up with the Bee Gees' Barry Gibb, who himself was basking in his Saturday Night Fever glow. Gibb wrote and produced most of the material on 1980's Guilty, and he supplied background vocals as well as co-leads on two tracks. The results are still completely bewitching. "Promises," for instance, is a lounge-like dance number and Babs sounds simply fabulous--sexy, lighthearted, passionate, playful--all at once. "Life Story" is a wild epic, and "Make It Like a Memory" keeps soaring up and up into a stratosphere of shag-carpeted luxury. Even Gibb's wavering vocals are great--and not a little like a disco version of Mandy Patinkin. And of course, the hits are out of this world: "Woman in Love" and "What Kind of Fool" are titanium-plated classics the likes of which Streisand has not topped since. A guilty pleasure, sure--just indulge. --Elisabeth Vincentelli
Guilty Reviews:
Guilty 
2009-11-01 - One of Barbara's and Barry's all time greatest albums. This is the second one I've owned!
Great singing! 
2009-07-20 - Well, what can i say about the vocals on this album from Barbra Streisand? Their excellent. She truly is one of the greatest singers, I've ever heard. I was surprised in checking out her discography that most of 70's stuff is pop rock/disco material. Which made me like her alittle bit more. Guilty is a great relaxing track. And the bee gee's andy gibb does a great job on the duet. Woman in love and what kind of fool are good stresiand tracks! To me the rest of the material is good, but not her best. Overall, you should def. buy this album if you like 70's rock/disco and old school r and b! This def. a hidden gem froms stresiand and def. worth buying. I did find her previour two albums to be alittle better though.
Barbra's masterpiece
2009-05-18 - I've long been a huge fan of Barbra's music, but this album remains my favorite (as well as the most commercially successful, at least in Britain) among the many great albums that Barbra has recorded. Anybody who knows my musical tastes will be aware that my favorites aren't necessarily the most commercially successful, but this is one case where the two coincide.
For this album, Barbra enlisted the help of the Bee Gees who, at the time, were basking in the glory of their own rejuvenated career following the monumental success of Saturday night fever. Barry Gibb wrote one song (The love inside) and co-wrote all the others, five of them with his brother Robin (one of which, the title track, also co-credits Maurice) and the other three with Albhy Galuten. The songs are all strong and any of them could have been considered for release as A-side singles if they'd been on lesser albums, but even with such a strong album it's easy to detect the standout tracks.
The set opens with the title track, a brilliant duet with Barry Gibb that became a hit around the world although it was only a minor hit in Britain. Next comes Woman in love, which was the first single taken from the album and which became Barbra's biggest-ever hit in her glittering career; it was also one of the biggest hits (perhaps THE biggest hit) that the Bee Gees were ever involved with. After beginning with two such outstanding tracks, you might expect the rest of the album to be an anti-climax but it's not so although (of course) nothing else can match Woman in love.
The next three songs (Run wild, Promises, The love inside) are great songs in their own right and Barbra sings them all superbly. She then teams up with Barry again for another excellent duet, What kind of fool. Three more excellent songs (Life story, Never give up, Make it like a memory) complete Barbra's masterpiece. Of all the album tracks that weren't released as singles, my favorite is probably Run wild, but it's a difficult choice.
So successful was this album, both commercially and artistically, that it seemed that it would only be a matter of time before Barbra teamed up again with the Bee Gees, or at least with Barry. In fact, a quarter of a century elapsed before the sequel, Guilty too, was recorded, but Barry was the only one of the brothers involved in that sequel.
When it comes to singers with long, distinguished and varied careers, there are always arguments about what their best music really was. In Barbra's case, I'll always regard this album as her masterpiece although I enjoy listening to many of her other albums too.
Guilty
2008-12-13 - This is a chritmas gift for my mum. She has not beable to find it for years, so I track it down from you guys and my Dad will now give to her on the christmas day. Thank you
excellent sound track
2008-05-27 - As usual Barbra and Barry Gibb excellent voices in only one disc very nice sounds
